FRANK ABBOTT (46) BCom, CA (SA), MBL
Financial director since 1997.
Frank Abbott joined the Rand Mines/Barlow Rand Group in 1981, where he obtained broad financial management experience at operational level. He was appointed financial controller to the newly formed Randgold in 1992 and promoted to financial director of that group in October 1994. Until 1997, he was also a director of the gold mining companies Blyvooruitzicht, Buffelsfontein, Durban Roodepoort Deep and East Rand Proprietary Mines and a non-executive director of Harmony, which culminated in his appointment as
financial director of Harmony in the same year.
TED GROBICKI (52) BSc (Hons) (Geology), MSc (Mineral Exploration) (London), PrSciNat, FIMM
Executive director since 1999.
Ted Grobicki was appointed as non-executive director in 1994. In 1979 he was appointed chief executive of Texas Gulf Inc South Africa, and has since served at a senior executive level in a wide range of public and private companies in the mining sector. With Harmony’s merger with Kalgold and West Rand Cons. in 1999, he was appointed as executive director focussing on new business.
Ted has 29 years’ experience in all aspects of the mining industry, including exploration, evaluation, development, mine management and financial and corporate management. He oversees Harmony’s Australian operations.
GORDON SIBIYA (54) Pr Eng, MSc (Elec. Eng), PhD (Nuclear Eng)
Non-executive director since 2000.
Following Harmony’s acquisition of Randfontein Estates Limited early last year, Gordon Sibiya was appointed a non-executive director of Harmony in July 2000. He is a director of several companies, including Afrox, Honeywell and Babcock Africa. Some of his accomplishments include leading the processes of drafting South Africa’s first White Paper on Energy Policy, as well as the Nuclear
Energy, Nuclear Safety and Gas Regulatory Bills, which have become legislation. He is chairman of the Ministerial Independent Review Panel at the DME/PBMR.
AIDAN EDWARDS (63) FREng, BSc (Eng) Met, DIC, PhD
Non-executive director since 2000.
Aidan Edwards has a strong metallurgical and entrepreneurial background through his association with the world-renowned minerals research and development institute, Mintek, of which he was president until recently. He was appointed non-executive director in July 2000 and will assist in Harmony’s product research and development initiatives. He has successfully promoted the well known MAP-educational programme, in which a number of industries now participate. This programme contributes to the production of well trained matriculants from previously disadvantaged communities. His most recent achievement is his appointment to the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom. He serves on a number of boards engaged in platinum and industrial minerals.